Alzheimer's is distinct from vascular dementia. From this study:
Metabolic syndrome was present in 15.8% of the study participants. The presence of metabolic syndrome increased the risk of incident vascular dementia but not Alzheimer's disease over 4 years, independent of sociodemographic characteristics and the apolipoprotein (apo) E4 allele.
I could be talking out my ass, but I'm reasonably certain that the majority of technical staff at the Amazon datacenters are local hires and not Americans. If things got rocky, they would follow their government's orders. Why would they be loyal to the US? No doubt there is a lot of centralized command-and-control, but unless the system design is very poor there has to be a standalone mode if the centralization is lost. They are certainly selling it as a service that will remain intact even if other sites are wiped out.
I think some of your worry about Amazon (or Google or...) should be allayed by the fact that they operate in Europe under a separate entity, subject to European jurisdiction. Yeah, their headquarters is in the US - but their ownership and corporate structure are global. Amazon AWS runs datacenters in Germany, UK, Ireland, France, and Sweden... surely in a crisis the EU governments would not let Amazon pull any stunts that are against the EU interest?
Well congratulations, you managed to write something interesting - unlike TFA. Perhaps the article is a performance art piece, meant to draw attention to the "issue" - but the whole exercise is predictable and frankly insulting. You made a concise point in a few sentences - the article is a 5-part series of wordy ridiculousness.
Both IP and limited liability are beasts that have grown way beyond their initial reasons for existence. Both represent massive government interference in the free market. I would love to see both reformed quite dramatically.
It shouldn't be mandatory to use it to access any govt service. Period.
Give this a little more thought. Must a government website run on government-owned servers, with traffic routed on government-owned lines? Of course not - governments can and do rent space or time in private data centers. Amazon is one of many private data centers.
My library uses Overdrive to lend ebooks.
And they probably loan CDs and DVDs and a number of other proprietary formats which require some specific company's technology to use.
Ooo! Next you should try blocking all Cloudflare IPs - I bet that won't affect any websites that use Cloudflare. Only one way to find out! And it would make an informative article, too.
This "coincidence" is more indicative of your bias than it is of anything else. If you scroll through the blacklist of doctors you will see that she in fact stands out complexion-wise.
I tried searching for this (on Google, first, before I had a duh moment, then on Duck Duck Go). All of the news stories seem to be based on a single Dutch news story with no additional information. Searching for Dutch court dockets is apparently hard when you don't speak Dutch.
Right, but unlike TFA, you haven't demonstrated how we can get from aren't to can. TFA has a concrete example of how nukes can get from aren't to can.
When Sweden and France built nuclear reactors to replace fossil fuel in the 1970s and 1980s, they were able to add new electricity production relative to their GDPs at five times Germany’s speed for renewables. Sweden’s carbon emissions dropped in half even as its electricity production doubled.
There is no reason to imagine that we can't spend that effort on renewables.
Eh, it's not my field of expertise, but I can think of reasons quite easily. Solar does not rely on large amounts of steel and concrete. Solar does not require huge turbines. Perhaps solar production facilities and nuclear facilities requires similar materials, but in that case your nuke plant is up and producing power by the time your very energy-hungry solar plant starts producing its first panel. And as you point out in an earlier comment, we really need batteries for renewables to work - so battery production would need to scale up greatly - and that means new battery factories and a whole lot of new mining operations. All of those things take time, and time is of the essence.
Again, I'm not sure I can throw my support behind TFA, but the arguments seem sound. We aren't currently building enough solar and wind. Maybe you can imagine a way to force this number higher, but right now that ain't happening. These guys propose a concrete, proven solution.
There's not much point in restating the thesis of the article here, but in short they claim that even the build-out rate of countries like Germany when committed to renewables can not keep up with energy demand. On the flip side, countries like Sweden already showed an ability to more than keep up with demand when committed to building nukes.
It is entirely possible that the supply chain for renewables is already stretched and that there is little to no impact to that supply chain buy building other kinds of plants. It's not like Starcraft where there are only two kinds of resources and all can be interchanged freely.
But batteries don't generate electricity. Look, I'm not knowledgeable to know whether TFA is credible or not, but he is right about one thing: if we really can't build renewables as fast as is necessary, nuclear is a hell of a lot better than fossil fuels. If we find ourselves building new fossil fuel facilities (which we are in fact doing), then it's a fail on the global warming front.
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Wanna bet they don't actually store the fingerprint, but instead something akin to a hash?
Sadly, I have no mod points to give you today - only this huzzah.
Huzzah.
I don't use a MOUSE I use a POINTING DEVICE.
Alzheimer's is distinct from vascular dementia. From this study:
I could be talking out my ass, but I'm reasonably certain that the majority of technical staff at the Amazon datacenters are local hires and not Americans. If things got rocky, they would follow their government's orders. Why would they be loyal to the US? No doubt there is a lot of centralized command-and-control, but unless the system design is very poor there has to be a standalone mode if the centralization is lost. They are certainly selling it as a service that will remain intact even if other sites are wiped out.
Ah, yes, I see your point.
I think some of your worry about Amazon (or Google or...) should be allayed by the fact that they operate in Europe under a separate entity, subject to European jurisdiction. Yeah, their headquarters is in the US - but their ownership and corporate structure are global. Amazon AWS runs datacenters in Germany, UK, Ireland, France, and Sweden... surely in a crisis the EU governments would not let Amazon pull any stunts that are against the EU interest?
Well congratulations, you managed to write something interesting - unlike TFA. Perhaps the article is a performance art piece, meant to draw attention to the "issue" - but the whole exercise is predictable and frankly insulting. You made a concise point in a few sentences - the article is a 5-part series of wordy ridiculousness.
Both IP and limited liability are beasts that have grown way beyond their initial reasons for existence. Both represent massive government interference in the free market. I would love to see both reformed quite dramatically.
It shouldn't be mandatory to use it to access any govt service. Period.
Give this a little more thought. Must a government website run on government-owned servers, with traffic routed on government-owned lines? Of course not - governments can and do rent space or time in private data centers. Amazon is one of many private data centers.
My library uses Overdrive to lend ebooks.
And they probably loan CDs and DVDs and a number of other proprietary formats which require some specific company's technology to use.
Ooo! Next you should try blocking all Cloudflare IPs - I bet that won't affect any websites that use Cloudflare. Only one way to find out! And it would make an informative article, too.
You just called Dr. Seuss a dumbass, Red.
Weird. Who would think that blocking AWS would block the customers of AWS. What an interesting experiment.
So... no true Scotsman, then?
This "coincidence" is more indicative of your bias than it is of anything else. If you scroll through the blacklist of doctors you will see that she in fact stands out complexion-wise.
Found the European envious of working search engines.
Most of the world thinks that's kinda stupid.
Yeah, we have a taste of that in Louisiana.
That must be why it's a state with such a high reputation for the rule of law.
OK, got it. All this Dutch is killing me! According to this Dutch website, the doctor's name is Rita Kappel and the black list in question is here.
I found the case documents at the Dutch court website, but believe it or not they are all anonymized!
I tried searching for this (on Google, first, before I had a duh moment, then on Duck Duck Go). All of the news stories seem to be based on a single Dutch news story with no additional information. Searching for Dutch court dockets is apparently hard when you don't speak Dutch.
Do you know what an NPC is?
Came here to post a sarcastic thing about pseudoscience, but my fellow geeks have it covered. Thanks, guys.
aren't != can't
Right, but unlike TFA, you haven't demonstrated how we can get from aren't to can. TFA has a concrete example of how nukes can get from aren't to can.
There is no reason to imagine that we can't spend that effort on renewables.
Eh, it's not my field of expertise, but I can think of reasons quite easily. Solar does not rely on large amounts of steel and concrete. Solar does not require huge turbines. Perhaps solar production facilities and nuclear facilities requires similar materials, but in that case your nuke plant is up and producing power by the time your very energy-hungry solar plant starts producing its first panel. And as you point out in an earlier comment, we really need batteries for renewables to work - so battery production would need to scale up greatly - and that means new battery factories and a whole lot of new mining operations. All of those things take time, and time is of the essence.
Again, I'm not sure I can throw my support behind TFA, but the arguments seem sound. We aren't currently building enough solar and wind. Maybe you can imagine a way to force this number higher, but right now that ain't happening. These guys propose a concrete, proven solution.
There's not much point in restating the thesis of the article here, but in short they claim that even the build-out rate of countries like Germany when committed to renewables can not keep up with energy demand. On the flip side, countries like Sweden already showed an ability to more than keep up with demand when committed to building nukes.
It is entirely possible that the supply chain for renewables is already stretched and that there is little to no impact to that supply chain buy building other kinds of plants. It's not like Starcraft where there are only two kinds of resources and all can be interchanged freely.
But batteries don't generate electricity. Look, I'm not knowledgeable to know whether TFA is credible or not, but he is right about one thing: if we really can't build renewables as fast as is necessary, nuclear is a hell of a lot better than fossil fuels. If we find ourselves building new fossil fuel facilities (which we are in fact doing), then it's a fail on the global warming front.